yafray protons/caustics

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Well, yesterday I only just started messing with the yafray engine and I am very pleased with it’s performance compared to the blender internal engine.

However, i cant seem to get caustics working. i tried following this thread:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread?t=29453
but i keep getting a bunch of white specs where i want it smooth like this:
http://www.jonlake.com/images/Lightflow/WaterCup.jpg

i tried upping the caustic blur but in the end, i still see those white dots :frowning:

do i just need to turn up the photon count? i’ve tried 200,000…close, but no cigar.

i’ll render some images if you guys want…

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can you post screenshots to see what your scene and settings look like.
are you using a photon lamp?

3

how on earth can i get the caustics in the first place…without a photon lamp? yes, i’m using a photon lamp and yes, it’s calculating the photons/caustics but not the way i want it.

photon_problem.jpg800×600 28.5 KB

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I’ve tried to set it up better…
Here is my result
http://uploader.polorix.net//files/780/Glassmonkey.jpg
and the blendfile

I hope it may be helpful.

5

There have been few threads about Yafray caustics lately, read them and learn. The .blend The Last Rookie send is also good reference for your future experiments.

6

You can increase the caustic effect by narrowing the photonlight angle, just to cover the object you want caustics from.

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I’ve been experimenting with your file, playing a bit with a traditional 3PT setup+ caustics.

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/6385/yafraycausticssx6.jpg

File:
http://www.zshare.net/download/57025402c0f870/

Alvarus